Ballurio is an altogether exciting and driven musician/guitarist currently based in Manassas, Virginia (U.S.A.) who denotes his playing style as instrumental rock, as one might want to hear on his most recent recording, "Spider Dance". photoHis workhorse guitars include a Stenberger GM4T - "Coffee" and a Washburn EC36 - "Ruby". Ballurio has been playing guitar since 1970, and truthfully shares his career objective, "To continue writing, playing and growing musically."

When the attempt was made to uncover his definitive or preferred effect for the guitar, Ballurio purposefully responded with, "Distortion - properly done," and then volunteered his musicial goals, "Strive to increase the subtleties and richness of my music ensuring that my music continues to expand and change. Release a new album every two years." He keeps open the possibility to, at some point, study with Joe Satriani, and is at the moment listening to everything, predominately guitarists. His most important gratification? "The process of blending instrumental orchestrations and hearing musical ideas evolve into a completed musical composition, something that is musically exciting and never been done before. I truly enjoy the process of creating new music through the blending of different instruments into a composition with rich overtones and complexities," he muses emphatically.

Ballurio winds up by detailing long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "What I'm currently working on is a new project that's a combination of rock blended with techno and industrial. The music for the current project has been written and the studio process is just getting started... this is the part I really dig! The project will blend rock, interlaced with complex and rich guitar orchestrations, with tastefully used synthesizers and heavy percussion and bass. This is quite a departure from my last project, "Spider Dance", which was written with the mind set of hard and raw orchestrated guitar, bass and drums... fundamental!" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.